Customer Reviews

Tiffen 52mm Color Graduated Neutral Density 0.6 Filter

5 star:		(20)
4 star:		(9)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(4)

 

 

This filter is used to balance the brighter areas of your picture to the darker ones, e.g. lighter sky with a darker landscape. It works well with digital because although you can't place the line of density anywhere (it's fixed in the middle but can be rotated), you can later crop in you're editing to get the desired composition. Filter is glass and better than Cokin which is plastic and scratches easily. Cokin filter holder has the advantage of complete adjustability because you slide the filter in and out as well as rotate it. By the way .6 ND is equal to one stop of light, something Tiffen doesn't explain in their marketing materials. They also have half stop, two stop and three stop grad NDs. There are high quality glass filters made for the Cokin system, but they cost 2x or more than the Tiffen.

The Tiffen filter is quality made. And is really nice for doing beach shots where the sky or the water sometimes gets overexposed or blown out when trying to get the perfect mix of sky and water detail.

Highly recommended.

The ND filter by Tiffen gets some light use (20%) on our outdoor shots. This allows us to darken the skies a bit if the sun is too bright. The graduated filter allows you to select which areas of your frame you want to darken because you can rotate it.

PROS
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1. Good vibrant shadows.
2. Saves time from PhotoShop.

CONS
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1. None yet.

Thanks,

Don
Refined Touch Photography

Great Filter to carry! Just make sure you have it rotated level. Great for darkening and highlighting sky while not darkening foreground.Perfect for sunsets and sunrises. Great product! You can somewhat simulate in post processing but this saves time by using it at the camera level.

Together with polirizer filter, an hald ND filter is the only filter you really need on digital camera.
It is absolutely fantastic and usefulness.

Just put the dark part of the filter in corrispondence of the lighter part of the scene, misure spot exposition on the darker part of the scene and you will have a very deatiled image, both on dark and light parts.
I never go around to take photos without it now

The worst constructed filter I've seen in my life time. Extremely thick. Its light weight makes me doubt if it is really made from glass. The mount ring can move sidewards for about 1mm apart from the glass ring, because it is made from a piece of plastic[...] When mounted on lens, it is really too loose to keep it from dancing. It's already full of dust between the glass ring and the mounting ring before I took it out from the shipping box, which make rotating a painful feeling. Avoid any rotation needed filter made by Tiffen!!!!!! Perhaps, any filter from Tiffen. Go B+W or Heliopan, they won't cost you much more but you'll see what a truly beautiful filter should look like. [...]

I live in Florida. Lots of blue sky, sand, and GREEN stuff. I like my blue sky, green foliage, sand shots with this ND filter. You get good depth, lush color, and overall richness and makes selecting exposure less of a chore.

Together a polirizer filter, an hald ND filter is the only filter you really need on digital camera.
It is absolutely fantastic and usefulness.

Just put the dark part of the filter in corrispondence of the lighter part of the scene, misure spot exposition on the darker part of the scene and you will have a very deatiled image, both on dark and light parts.
I never go around to take photos without it now

I love this filter, It is so handy i had used 40 times on many of my great photo. I love not having to go and adjust exposer composition all the time. I many use it on sunny day land scape photos so i can see the grass and sky at the same levels.

The filter came in a sturdy case and threads easily onto my lenses. It works as I anticipated and I am happy with the filter to use in my landscape photography.